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Anhedonia: Loss of the capacity to experience pleasure. The inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences. Anhedonia is a core clinical feature of depression, schizophrenia, and some other mental illnesses.
An anhedonic mother finds no joy from playing with her baby. An anhedonic football fan is not excited when his team wins. An anhedonic teenager feels no pleasure from passing the driving test.
"Anhedonia" is derived from the Greek "a-" (without) "hedone" (pleasure, delight). Other words derived from "hedone" include hedonism (a philosophy that emphasizes pleasure as the main aim of life), hedonist (a pleasure-seeker), and hedonophobia (an excessive and persistent fear of pleasure).
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( ăn ' hē-dŠ' nē-ə ) n. The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it. [New Latin anhēdonia : Greek an ...
Anhedonia: Loss of the capacity to experience pleasure. The inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences. Anhedonia is a core clinical feature of ...
–noun Psychology . lack of pleasure or of the capacity to experience it. Use Anhedonia in a Sentence See images of Anhedonia Search Anhedonia on the Web Origin ...
Anhedonia is the inability to gain pleasure from enjoyable experiences.
Abstract . Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that plagues all cultures and is known to be present in all socioeconomic groups. Patients exhibit a ...